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Circulation List, August 24, 2023

Updated: Jan 5

Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1117616&GUID=D30F985D-A8B4-444A-8E25-7038C6C72C1C&Options=info|&Search=

📑📊 Staff Memos

Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242985&GUID=387CEA44-F389-490E-A9B1-E25199DE90C0 from A. Dyke, Culture Officer, Development
The 2023 Barrie Arts Awards will take place on November 14 at the MacLaren Art Centre
Nominations opened July 17, and remain open until September 4. Submit your nominations for:
- Most Promising Youth
- Artist Beyond Barriers
- Excellence in the Arts
- Emerging Artist
- Contribution to the Community
- Business Champion
For more information, and to make a nomination, visit Barrie.ca/ArtsAwards

Media Release, August 16: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242984&GUID=0E5C10CA-0702-48FC-987D-8E8FC392E360
The City is inviting residents to vote for their favourite places and spaces, for inclusion in the 2024 Waste Collection Calendar
For more information, and to vote, visit Barrie.ca/calendar

Media Release, August 22: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242986&GUID=0260D188-6E2B-4915-A5BC-0A37732B19BC
Signs have now been installed in areas of the city where an automated speed enforcement (ASE) camera will be placed in a few months
For more information, visit Barrie.ca/traffic

Correspondence from Municipality of St. Charles, July 19: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242981&GUID=B5D184FF-AAF7-44AA-A044-CB4B15060C37
The Municipality of St. Charles has resolved to support Bill 5 - Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act

Correspondence from Municipality of St. Charles, July 19: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242982&GUID=BBCFF14A-9E14-49CC-95B7-65906E636E9C
The Municipality of St. Charles supports reinstating the repealed section of the Municipal Act, which allowed for a municipality to retain surplus proceeds from tax sales within their jurisdiction.

Correspondence from Township of Emo, August 14: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242983&GUID=C0A162C6-27CD-4225-92E4-9E428D5DF0BE
The Township of Emo wants the Province to rescind the Ontario Black Ash Recovery Strategy for the Rainy River District and Northwestern Ontario, seek further understanding of the health of the Black Ash in these areas, and complete a provincial study regarding the socio-economic impact on that part of Northwestern Ontario in consultation with stakeholders before any policies are passed and enacted

Correspondence from Town of Plympton-Wyoming, August 21: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242988&GUID=25EF57BA-6D0A-4129-B6A6-D0C9B104A4E2
The Town of Plympton-Wyoming supports Chatham-Kent's resolution to review the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to address current and emerging technologies, regulate consistent routine disclosure practices across institutions, review the threshold for frivolous and/or vexatious actions, ensure protection from harassment, scale fees to ensure taxpayers are protected from abuse of the access to information process, review and modernize administrative practices, and protect personal privacy and transparent government

Correspondence, County of Northumberland, August 18: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242989&GUID=0E6F36E5-8044-4702-AFAA-5B9365B43C8B
The County of Northumberland supports the request to the Province to support community-driven home care services through the redirect of ministry beds in abeyance funding

Correspondence from the Township of Severn, August 11: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12242990&GUID=965A3B3D-078E-4210-928D-CCD161D8539C
The Township of Severn formally endorses the call for a new Just Transition Transfer, and urges the Federal government to establish a new JTT, starting with a major financial commitment in the next Federal budget